the company
>will buy the rights to
>show a movie X amount
>of times. Where (meaning which
>of their channels)/when they show
>it is up to thepurchaser
>of the rights. The decision
>not to show it on
>regular BET boils down to
>$$$. If you wanna see
>it, you gotta pay for
>it. Supply and demand.

The problem is BET networks is not the same company as BET Movies- or BET action- same way with BET.com They are all sepearate corporate entities all held by BET holdings. My company does the website for BET .com and while BET holdings has some interest in our endeavors it has no jurisdiction- if i sell my web toons to BET.com that doesnt mean they can show them on BET.

When BET movies buys the rights they can show it as much as they want but BET network would have to arrange for an entirely different deal.


>THe producers/editors don't have jack to
>say about it though. The
>studio owns that movie and
>once it's in the can
>they can pretty much do
>whatever they like to it
>(this is why all those
>"director's cuts" exist. so that
>the original visionary can show
>they movie the way they
>intended).

I dont know if the producers of Slam have such an intrusive deal- their shit was released by Trimark not any major studio i doubt they have much of a hold on the rights to the actual film. They're still trying to the most out Leprauchan in teh Hood (starring Ice T)


>If they could edit "Do the
>Right thing" and "Harlem Nights"
>tey could edit Slam. Whether
>the integrity of the film
>would be comromised or not
>is subjective.

I disagree- neither of those movies involve poetic content. the poems in this film contain profanity- like i said its one thing to change a random curse but to try and overdub a poetic verse is too much trouble- not to mention the lyrics of th songs in the soundtrack and several instances of illegal drug sales and vioence that arent really accepted on basic cable (especially in the capacity that slam depicts them). When was the last time you saw such a vivd depiction of prison and urban life portrayed on basic cable?

>Now THAT is funny. True, yet
>still funny. And while were
>sort of on that subject
>(drug dealers and such), does
>anyone wonder why BET couldn't
>make a program like "The
>Corner"?

Thats whats fucked about all this discontent- we paint ourselves into a corner.

K